The Emperor was kissed by the Regent and cried again

"Your Majesty, can you just take a bite...?"

Huo Shurou's tears rolled down, her thick eyelashes trembled, and her eye sockets and nose tip were red.

Her cheeks were flushed, and she looked at Shen Jingli timidly, her eyes full of sincerity. She looked so pitiful, and I felt sorry for her...

But! Shen Jingli knew very well that if she softened her heart, there would be endless troubles!

She doesn't want to cause unnecessary trouble!!

Therefore, the imperial concubine's beauty trap is ineffective on Shen Jingli, she is only attracted by Qin Yejue's beauty trap.

Only when Qin Yejue looked pitiful would Shen Jingli take the trouble to coax him and unconditionally meet his unreasonable demands.

……

Shen Jingli's eyes were determined and she shook her head like a rattle.

When Huo Shurou saw that Shen Jingli refused to eat, she made up her mind and took out a dagger from her sleeve.

The incident happened suddenly, and Shen Jingli reflexively grasped the Moon-Lanling Bracelet, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her forehead.

Could it be that... seeing that there is no hope of consummating the marriage, the imperial concubine is going to kill the king! ?

Huo Shurou put the dagger against her wrist and choked up, "Your Majesty...if you refuse to eat, I will commit suicide..."

Before she could finish her words, she was knocked unconscious by a woman from behind. Huo Shurou fell in front of the table, and the sharp dagger accidentally scratched her arm.

With a clang, the dagger fell to the ground.

Shen Jingli looked up and saw a tall woman with a high ponytail and sharp eyes, showing her heroic demeanor.

Jiuxue bowed her head and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Regent sent me to protect you secretly. The situation was urgent just now. I was afraid that Your Majesty would be injured by mistake, so I knocked her out."

Shen Jingli had come back to her senses. She said, "Well, thank you very much. What's your name?"

When she was assassinated before, Qin Yejue said that he would send a female secret guard to protect her secretly. It must be this heroic woman in front of him.

"Jiuxue." After she said that, she picked up the dagger on the ground.

Shen Jingli hummed, she looked in the direction of Jiuxue's figure and found bloodstains on the ground, she frowned.

I guess he got scratched accidentally when he fainted just now.

Shen Jingli gently lifted Huo Shurou's arm and wanted to bandage her wound, but Jiuxue quickly stopped Shen Jingli's action.

"Your Majesty, please let me handle this matter."

Shen Jingli: "Okay, help her lie on the chaise longue first, then bandage her wound."

Jiuxue did exactly what she was told. As she bandaged the wound, she said, "Your Majesty, the things she brought cannot be eaten. They contain a lot of aphrodisiac."

"I know."

Jiuxue said again: "Your Majesty, since the imperial concubine wants to consummate her marriage with you, why don't you find someone else to marry her while she is fainted..."

Shen Jingli understood the meaning of Jiuxue's words and interrupted her in time, "No! She will get married in the future."

Huo Shurou is a virgin now, how can she let anyone tarnish her innocence?

In ancient feudal society, women valued chastity more than their lives. Huo Shurou thought she was a man, and under pressure from public opinion, she wanted to consummate the marriage.

But in the future, she will definitely regain her female body. If that happens, Huo Shurou, who has lost her innocence, may be accused of adultery and will be pointed at forever, making it difficult for her to gain a foothold.

"What if she comes to bother you again in the future?"

"Her arm is injured, so she can't sleep with you."

Shen Jingli looked at Huo Shurou's pale face and said helplessly: "In this case, I will give her some medicine so that the wound on her arm will not heal for a while. In this way, the imperial concubine will not come to see me in a short time."

If a concubine was injured, she naturally could not serve the emperor in the bedchamber. Before her wound healed, Huo Shurou would not have made a fuss about consummating the marriage.

……

"I'm going to learn how to make medicine in the real house. You can do whatever you want."

Shen Jingli left after he finished speaking.

She spent a long time in the school and finally made an ointment that could temporarily prevent wounds from healing. As long as it was applied to the injured area, the wound would not be able to scab within a month and would not leave scars afterwards.

……

When Shen Jingli came back with the ointment, Jiuxue had already retreated into the darkness. Seeing that the imperial concubine was still not awake, she hurriedly applied the ointment on Huo Shurou's arm.

Just then, Shochiku came in.

Seeing Huo Shurou sleeping so soundly early in the morning, he asked curiously, "Your Majesty, what did you do to her in broad daylight?!"

"After she fell...she became unconscious. Ask the girl outside the palace...whose name seems to be Diancui, to help the imperial concubine back to Yanxi Palace."

Songzhu was sharp-eyed. He pointed at the bloodstains under the Lihua table and said with a worried look on his face: "Your Majesty? Who is injured? There is blood under the table!!"

"Um... the imperial concubine was unfortunately scratched after falling. I have bandaged her wound and she is fine now."

Songzhu pursed his lips and said, "There's so much blood, are you sure it's just a scratch? Your Majesty, I don't believe it!"

"If I say so, it's true! You are not allowed to refute me. Then order a little maid to clean up the blood on the ground."

Song Zhu knew that the bloodstains on the ground were not from Shen Jingli, so he was too lazy to ask for the truth.

Just as he was about to leave, Shen Jingli stopped him, "Songzhu, when the imperial concubine wakes up, go to the Yanxi Palace in person and tell her... she can't sleep with him because she is injured. Tell her not to think too much and to heal her first."

Shochiku responded, "Okay."

After saying that, he asked Diancui to come in and take Huo Shurou back to the Yanxi Palace, and ordered two maids to clean up the bloodstains on the ground.

After this incident, Shen Jingli lost her appetite. She ate a few bites of food and went to Qianzhong Garden to continue making the antidote for the blood spider.

Blood spiders have an alkaline reaction and need to be detoxified with acidic herbs.

……

Three more days passed.

Shen Jingli spent more and more time in Qianzhong Garden, and she often ate directly in the garden.

That afternoon, Shen Jingli had just prepared a new antidote. She was so tired that she sat on the swing to rest, closed her eyes, and leaned against the rope to take a light sleep.

At this point... the new soldiers arriving in Beijing should be almost here. I will apply the newly made acidic medicinal wine on their limbs and see how much the recovery time is shortened.

At first, the medicinal wine used on the third brother took three days to make him walk slowly. She applied the antidote she made yesterday on the limbs of the newly arrived soldiers at noon, and they were able to walk normally in the afternoon.

But that’s not enough…

It was far from enough. The recovery time was still too long. She needed to make an antidote that could restore the body to normal immediately.

In this way, the medicinal wine can be applied to the soldiers' limbs in advance, which can effectively prevent them from being poisoned by spider venom.

……

Seeing that Shen Jingli on the swing looked much more haggard, Nanny Qiu slowly walked towards Shen Jingli, lowered her head and whispered in her ear: "Your Majesty, go to bed."

Hearing Nanny Qiu's voice, Shen Jingli slowly opened her eyes. She rubbed her eyes and stretched.

"Mammy...I won't sleep. I have something else to do."

Just as she was about to get up and go to Longxiao Palace, Nanny Qiu looked around and took out a secret letter from her arms.